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PAGE 50 - “THE STAR” Tuesday, August 23, 2016
SPORT | FOOTBALL
SPORT | FOOTBALL
thestar.com.au
MIRBOO North and Yinnar Football Netball
Clubs have been arch rivals since 1955 with
no quarter asked and certainly none given in
more than 100 meetings.
However, on Saturday at Yinnar Recreation Reserve,
both clubs, with full support from the Mid Gippsland
Football League, joined forces in human kindness.
An initiative by Mirboo North Fourths coach, Jack
Oddy and embraced by club presidents, Paul Pratt of
Mirboo North and Yinnar’s Peter Linton, resulted in 12
year old Down Syndrome lad, Alec Kenneally, playing
his first official game of football.
Shortly before quarter time, Alec, a devoted Rich-
mond fan, received loud cheers and applause when he
came onto the ground in a yellow and black Mirboo
North jumper.
To top everything off nicely, Alec kicked the last goal
of the match for the mighty Tigers, with only eight sec-
onds of play remaining.
Players from both sides gathered near the goal square
to congratulate Alec on his achievement before carrying
him from the field amid a sea of smiling faces.
Dream come true: Alec Kenneally is carried from the ground amid a sea of
smiling faces following his debut with the Mirboo North Fourths.
Special
moment
brings joy
• Yinnar v Mirboo North
Yinnar uprooted by Tigers’ reign
ground.
Berchtold booted another
three magnificent goals as
the Tigers calculatingly and
swiftly ran the ball into their
forward arc with delivery ex-
actitude.
Tall defender, Dwayne
Gunn, was swung into attack
where his height and mobility
resulted in a goal to him and
plenty of spot fire problems
for the Magpies.
In the meantime Yinnar
was restricted to only two
behinds by Mirboo North’s
motivated, skilful and vigor-
ous defensive network.
With playing coach, Clan-
cy Bennett, Tristan Salerno
and Alex Windsor uprooting,
tearing down and destroying
Yinnar’s forward structures, it
was mostly 25 minutes of one
way traffic going directly into
Mirboo North’s scoring arc.
Runners Josh Taylor, Luke
Palmer, Hudson Kerr and Jer-
emy Salinger were having a
field day streaming downfield
from opportunities created by
Wightman, Daniel Taylor and
Dom Pinneri, in and under the
packs.
To pass the time, a couple
of uninterested older Yinnar
supporters were overheard
discussing their childhood
TV days watching The Happy
Show, featuring Happy Ham-
mond, Ron Barassi, Princess
Panda, Parer the Magician and
‘Sylvester the Talking Sock’.
Early last quarter goals
from Riley Oddy and Berch-
told helped push the visitors’
lead out to 47 points, to put
the game beyond the Mag-
pies’ reach.
However, Yinnar hung in
there with rearguard determi-
nation that produced a run of
three goals midway through
the final term.
The burly Grinstead-Jones
grubbed one off the deck in
the 10-metre square, before
Jesse Bird, Mahoney, Grin-
stead-Jones and Aitken com-
bined to find Julian Blackford
for another.
Then
Grinstead-Jones
scored again from close range
after marking strongly and re-
ceiving a 50 metre penalty
to boot.
Palmer closed out the day
with his third and Mirboo
North’s 13th major, courtesy
of a free kick and a 50 metre
penalty that placed him within
scoring distance.
The proof of Mirboo
North’s dominance was in
the pudding and also on the
scoreboard.
Berchtold and Palmer’s
combined total of eight
majors resulted from their
teammates’ industrious, me-
thodical and persistently pug-
nacious achievements in the
scrimmages, through the cor-
ridor and out wide.
Reserves
Mirboo North reversed its
previous 32 point loss to Yin-
nar with a rock solid 35 point
victory over the third placed
Magpies in Jed Alexander’s
100th club game.
The mighty Tigers, who
completed the minor season
with 13 wins and finished
in fifth position on the lad-
der, will host Yarragon in the
elimination final at Tigerland
this Sunday.
Mirboo North will start
a clear favorite against the
Panthers, but to make sure of
things, it must pick the right
man to play on Yarragon’s
big hearted all rounder, Keith
Clerks.
Possible candidates for
the big job are Brent Har-
riage, James ‘Bubba’ Stewart
and Tom Bolton.
Mirboo North’s ruthless
desire to win the contested
ball continually forced the
Magpies onto the back foot,
where their group dynamics
were completely misaligned
and fragmented.
Time and again, the Ti-
gers’ miserly defence led by
Sam Pratt, Zac Porter and Ben
Richards, turned back count-
less Yinnar forward flurries
with dare, flair and dash.
The Magpies only goal
came from Marcus Webb in
the third quarter and many
of his fellow forwards were
guilty of loitering without in-
tent (to grab the ball).
A feature of Mirboo
North’s game plan execution
was its forward press, where
there was a distinct lack of
freedom given to Yinnar’s
defenders.
Adam Miller, Brendan
Weston, Chris Bland and Jake
Garde kept firing the ball into
the Tigers’ scoring arc, where
Steven Rogers scored two
goals from accurate passes.
Thirds
Following some tardy
shooting at the big white
sticks, reigning back-to-back
premier, Mirboo North, found
itself trailing by three points
at three quarter time.
However, the mighty Ti-
gers finished the last quarter
strongly by kicking five goals
straight for a
hard
fought 15 point victory over
the second placed Magpies.
For finishing on top of
the ladder, Mirboo North has
earned a week’s rest before it
plays the winner of this Satur-
day’s qualifying final between
Yinnar and Newborough.
Fourths
Mirboo North recovered
from a slow start where it
trailed by 13 points at quarter
time to defeat Yinnar by 45
points.
There was much excite-
ment when, in his first game
of footy, Alec Kenneally,
kicked Mirboo North’s 15th
goal, with eight seconds left
on the clock.
2016 Mirboo North Foot-
ball Netball Club, football
best and fairest awards.
Seniors: best and fairest,
J. Taylor and runner-up, C.
Bennett.
Reserves: best and fair-
est, S. Pratt and runner-up, M.
Green.
Thirds: best and fairest,
K. Wilson and runner-up, L.
Swallow.
Although Newborough is
a short priced favorite to win
the 2016 MGFL premiership,
Mirboo North remains hope-
ful of producing its fifth Se-
nior flag since 2006.
After conceding three
opening goals to Mirboo
North, Yinnar bounced back
tenaciously as Luke Linton,
Emerson Hicks, Brandon
Mahoney, Jaime Aitken and
Kane Grinstead-Jones stead-
fastly willed themselves into
the match.
Young blond bombshell,
Ricky Van Rooy, slammed
home the Magpies’ first major
from 40 metres, following an
impressive overhead mark.
Heavy midfield traffic and
a concentration on tackling
mania, made breaks to free-
dom extremely challenging
for both sides.
With scores gridlocked at
4.3 apiece, 16 minutes into
the second quarter, Mirboo
North centreman, Mitchell
Wightman, passed superbly
to Kris Berchtold, who slot-
ted his second goal.
The Tigers immediately
followed up when Berch-
told found Cameron Le Page
close to the big white sticks,
for their sixth major and a 12
point half time advantage.
Under dark cloudy skies
and with drizzle in the air,
Mirboo North turned up the
heat on the Magpies with re-
sounding third term power
and influence all over the
Spring attack: Mitch Wightman created a lot of
opportunities for the Tigers’ runners by getting in
and under, and here he gets on top of his Yinnar
opponent, Sebastian Famularo.
No quarter: Yinnar’s
Brandon
Mahoney
came in for some close
attention from Matt
Holland (28) and Clan-
cy Bennett (12) as the
Tigers tore down the
Magpies in the last of
the season’s home and
away games.
OTHER MATCHES
SENIORS
Newborough 17.14.116 d
Yarragon 4.5.29
Boolarra 9.10.64 d
Trafalgar 4.8.32
Thorpdale 17.11.113 d
Hill end 7.7.49
Yall-Yall Nth 20.5.125 d
Morwell East 8.1.49
RESERVES
Newborough 18.8.116 d
Yarragon 2.2.14
Boolarra 19.11.125 d
Trafalgar 4.5.29
Thorpdale 8.15.63 d
Hill End 0.3.3
Yall-Yall Nth 21.14.140 d
Morwell East 4.3.27
THIRDS
Trafalgar 6.8.44 d
Boolarra 5.11.41
Thorpdale 8.9.57 d
Hill End 6.3.39
Yall-Yall Nth 15.9.99 d
Morwell East 7.9.51
FOURTHS
Newborough 13.17.95 d
Yall-Yall Nth 6.0.36
SENIORS
LADDER
Newborough......... 276.14 68
Mirboo North ........ 204.07 60
Yall-Yall North....... 237.36 56
Yinnar ................... 153.24 48
Morwell East........... 96.78 38
Thorpdale ................ 86 .35 30
Yarragon .................. 62.35 22
Boolarra ................... 74.20 20
Trafalgar ................... 37.41 10
Hill End .................... 39 .30 8
THIRDS
LADDER
Mirboo North ........ 361.50 68
Yinnar ................... 244.54 60
Newborough......... 210.02 52
Hill End ................. 142.82 48
Yall-Yall North....... 108.60 36
Thorpdale ................ 86 .14 36
Trafalgar ................... 64.44 36
Morwell East ............ 37.64 16
Boolarra .................. 19.87 8
FOURTHS
LADDER
Newborough......... 216.11 85
Trafalgar ............... 139.82 64
Mirboo North ........ 121.73 64
Yinnar ..................... 76.05 35
Yall-Yall North......... 36.24 0
RESERVES
LADDER
Newborough......... 486.72 64
Yall-Yall North....... 373.90 64
Yinnar ................... 314.65 60
Mirboo North ........ 193.72 52
Yarragon ................. 64.36 30
Thorpdale ................ 58.76 28
Trafalgar ................... 64.40 24
Morwell East ............ 37.64 18
Boolarra ................... 39 .87 16
Hill End .................... 22 .54 4
Mid
Gippsland
League
SENIORS
Mirboo North 13.7.85
Yinnar 7.6.48
Mirboo North goals: K. Berchtold
5,L.Palmer3,H.Kerr1,C.Le
Page 1, J. Taylor 1, R. Oddy 1, D.
Gunn 1.
Yinnar goals: K. Grinstead-Jones 2,
B. Wilson 1, J. Blackford 1, J. Win-
ters 1, R. Van Rooy 1, D. Yates 1.
Mirboo North best: J. Taylor, L.
Palmer, K. Berchtold, T. Salerno, J.
Salinger, M. Wightman.
Yinnar best: L. Linton, E. Hicks, B.
Mahoney, K. Grinstead-Jones, J.
Mowat, M. Renwick.
RESERVES
Mirboo North 6.11.47
Yinnar 1.6.12
Mirboo North goals: S. Rogers 2, C.
Bland 1, A. Miller 1, D. Lockie 1, J.
Graeme 1.
Yinnar goals: M. Webb 1.
Mirboo North best: A. Miller, B.
Weston, C. Bland, S. Pratt, Z. Por-
ter, J. Garde.
Yinnar best: B. Taysom, M. Szk-
warek, D. Giles, B. Ross, R. Malcol-
mson, D. Linton.
THIRDS
Mirboo North 7.12.54
Yinnar 6.3.39
Mirboo North goals: C. Alexander
2, R. Lowrie 1, D. Allen 1, D. Huynh
1, R. Kratzat 1, T. Joustra 1.
Yinnar goals: C. Watson 4, C. Io-
rangi 2.
Mirboo North best: T. Reiske, C.
Rudling, J. Hohmann, C. Alexan-
der, L. Swallow.
Yinnar best: D. Mehran, R. Mayo,
D. Schneider, H. Peavey, J. Hibbert,
C. Iorangi.
FOURTHS
Mirboo North 15.8.98
Yinnar 8.5.53
Mirboo North goals: F. Austin 4, W.
Kilpin 1, C. White 1, S. Kennedy
1, B. O’Loughlin 1, R. Kratzat 1,
L. Dight 1, R. Lowrie 1, A. Krausz
1, J. Carnes 1, R. Peter 1, A. Ken-
neally 1.
Yinnar goals: B. McCormack 2, C.
Iorangi 2, A. Sheers 2, M. Smith 1,
O. Doig 1.
Mirboo North best: J. Mason, L.
Oddy, F. Austin, T. Paterson, R.
Kratzat, B. O’Loughlin.
Yinnar best: M. Ounjit, A. Hen-
drikse, A. Drinken, M. Smith, C.
Iorangi, T. Hutchinson.
MIRBOO North end-
ed the Mid Gippsland
home and away sea-
son in second position
on the ladder when
it defeated reigning
premier, Yinnar, by
37 points at Yinnar on
Saturday.
The mighty Tigers now
enter their 14th consecutive fi-
nals series and face Yallourn
Yallourn North in the qualifying
final at Boolarra this Saturday.